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The Books of Maccabees describe the revolt led by the Maccabean family against the Syrian king, Antiochus Epiphanes. A couple of centuries later, Jewish scholars found themselves in Jamnia with the Temple destroyed and Jerusalem lost. Their circumstances were the result of their own failed revolt against the Romans.
Dec 26, 2023 · The Maccabees were a group of Jewish rebels against the Seleucid Empire. The revolt, which ultimately ended in victory for the Maccabees, is celebrated every year during Chanukah. The book of Maccabees provides an important historical record of the events of the revolt, including the prayers uttered by the Jews who faced their oppressors. The ...
20. The Second Book of the Maccabees - Summary. II Maccabees focuses on the Jews’ revolt against Antiochus and concludes with the defeat of the Syrian general Nicanor in 161 BCE by Judas Maccabeus, the hero of the work. In general, its chronology coheres with that of I Maccabees. An unknown editor, the “Epitomist,” used the factual notes ...
The decision to exclude the book of Maccabees from certain Christian denominations’ Old Testament canons stems from different factors. One perspective argues that Martin Luther, during the Protestant Reformation, removed seven books from the Old Testament Canon, including Maccabees. His reasoning was either that they were originally written ...
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The Catholic Encyclopedia gives further details on why 3 and 4 Maccabees were not included in the biblical canon: III Mach. is the story of a persecution of the Jews in Egypt under Ptolemy IV Philopator (222-205 BC), and therefore has no right to its title. Though the work contains much that is historical, the story is a fiction. IV Mach. is a ...
Jul 18, 2016 · The simple answer is that Judaism regards the Age of Prophecy as having ended about 2400 years ago, with Israel as a vassal state of Persia -- long before the Chanukah story. Anything after this point was no longer "Divinely inspired" (ruach hakodesh) like the earlier books, and therefore not Bible. (Though still possibly worthwhile, meaningful ...
Dec 28, 2020 · Yes and no. Although outside of 1 and 2 Maccabees, the Maccabees family receives no mention, we do have a peek of the time period in which all these events take place in Daniel. Daniel’s vision of the ram and goat ( Daniel 8) shows the goat (Alexander the Great’s) demise and the four horns—kingdoms—which grow from his empire ...
